Postman's Last Paragraph

The distinction Postman makes in the last paragraph in Chapter 11 is that we live in a society that is "in a race between education and disaster." What that basically means is that education has taken a turn for the worse. With it becoming integrated into television (a combination that is destined for failure in the first place), the educational value of anything on TV, whether classified as educational programming or not, has been swapped for entertainment. Because of this, according to Aldous Huxley, we as a collective whole have stopped using rational thinking in our approach to television, and are treating every program as a joke, whatever the subject matter is. At this point, there seems to be no way out, and our lack of rational thoughts is going to continue until we are, literally, Amusing Ourselves to Death.